10 Fruits you've been eating wrong, and how to do it right

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These 10 hacks prove you've been eating these fruits wrong all along, and how to fix that

Fruit is a tasty, healthy snack that should be easy to grab out of the fridge and eat at a moment's notice. But how much time (and fruit!) have you wasted by improperly cutting, peeling and eating it?

You don't want to know. The good news is you can now maximize your sweet, sweet fruit consumption thanks to the hacks below.

1. Apples

Apple cores are a myth. That's right — a myth! If you eat your apple starting at the bottom or top instead of starting in the middle, the core disappears, and you're just left with a couple of seeds to spit out (or secretly swallow).

2. Mandarin oranges

3. Bananas

Leave it to humans to mess up something as simple as peeling a banana. Our other primate friends had it figured out a long time ago: You should start from the bottom to effortlessly peel your banana.

4. Pomegranates

Getting the arils out of a pomegranate sometimes feels impossible to do and can leave your kitchen looking like a murder scene. Turns out a bowl of water makes the process so easy, you might actually start enjoying pomegranates again.